Thicket. This is not a big grove. Not a bunch of yards from end to end. It is still pretty important for moving through a cultivated landscape. It is one of the few wild places that remain here in the valley floor. Time, bears here all the particularly in the fall when they are out looking for wild and mastic fruit. Actually, we have a willow tree back here, where a black bear was bedding for about a month and a half. A pretty gnarly willow, it has been used extensively by bears for a bedding. One bear was here for about a month last year. I will show you whats behind. If you come through here, you can see on the trunk of this tree, the way the bear has worn the bark from climbing up. Call marks, the spark here. You can see this pile of bear in the crook of this branch, just above here, they left a pile this big, which is pretty impressive. You can see the place where the bear was. This is all very close to our house. From where i lay my head at night. It is a good illustration of the
Like you said, just creepy. D. C. Mayor vince gray tying up a few loose ends before he leaves office on friday. Today he signed a few bills into law, one of them approving funding for a soccer stadium to be built at Buzzard Point in southwest. I know the purpose of this transaction is to keep our soccer team here in the District Of Columbia and create a new venue for them to play. Lets be mindful that it also will create a tremendous catalyst for Economic Development in an area that tremendously blighted. He signed a bill that establishes a memorial for a victims of the metro crash in 2009. Hundreds of officers paid their final respects to corporal jumedical clagget. He was killed when his cruiser went off the road and struck a tree. Stephanie ramirez was there for the solemn sendoff. Reporter the last this corp corporal jumedical clagget did was surprise people with breakfast, acts of kindness. Thats how family and friends tell us how the corporal lived, helping out the homeless. Even
Because after all, we have been taught that the pilgrims that squanto taught them to warn them of had a good crop that first year. In exchange 21 they wanted to have a big cities to celebrate and to give thanks and play a little folk all. And that is how all of this began. Our modern understanding of thanksgiving is very much a 20th century invention. It was not a holiday that was marked throughout the first 300 years of europeans being permanently settled in the new world. But now it is entered American Mythology as true and squanto as a central part of the myth. What is not so much a part of our understanding of this. Was king philips war which followed about 40 years after the arrival of the pilgrims was an absolutely devastating war between the english and the dutch and it was ferocious probably the greatest percentage of the population of all of these peoples was killed, more than in any other american conflict. So it was absolutely defining of their relationship in the historical
And a native rights advocate who is trying to eliminate thousands of native american mascots. We begin with the director of business owning institutions National Museum of the American Indian. This is just over two hours. [applause] thank you very much for hosting us tonight. It is good to be back in the valley. I was expecting different weather than we have got but we all know rain is always a blessing in the desert. It is very good to be here at the museum. It is one of our important Partners National late and nationally and works with armies and to help us sharpen ideas and share information and objects quite often. It is always good to be here. For those of you who have not seen it, i hope you will check out the exhibition on native americans in sports. I think you will be surprised. One of the things that many people are surprised by our the range of things that native americans have achieved excellence in. This is one of those areas. We all know about jim thorpe. There were many
The canadian side . I come from a province 20 seconds. We would the it would be raised in minnesota and processed in iowa. So i think people want to know where their food comes from. Theres got to be a way to deal with that reality and not we won three case. Were going to win a fourth. Wed rather negotiate than retaliate would be our view. What do you think . It will be healthy and will dont be healthy between the United States and canada. Well see how the court case plays out not with standing those here. I want to thank all of our panelists for being here. Its been an enlightning conversation here at the table. Its been good to have you in the audience with us tonight. Continue to at least continue the dialogue and i suppose as long as everybodys talking maybe not the two guards at the top but as long as the rest of us keep talking about the issue theres always a way to work our way through it. So thank yall for being here. Thank you again here in the audience. And well see you next